Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles W. Pickering

In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.

Charles Edison

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

Charles Dudley Warner

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

Charles de Lint

There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very easy to burn away your time instead -- answering e-mails, surfing the Internet, or hanging out with friends. You really must have the discipline to sit down and write every day. Most of what I am writing is living in the back of my head or in my subconscious. I find if I write every day, my subconscious will do the job for me.

Charles de Lint

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

Charles Dickens

"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

Charles Dickens

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Charles Stross

I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!

Charles Stross

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Beyonce Knowles

If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.

Demi Moore

When one person is enslaved, we're all enslaved.

Cass McCombs

You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

Alan Sugar

I like to be a very fair person.

Cesar Chavez

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

Al Goldstein

The true success is the person who invented himself.

Susan B. Anthony

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

Chris Elliott

I'm not a competitive person.

Ali MacGraw

Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.

Clare Balding

I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

Fernando Flores

We live in an extraordinary time

Jody Williams

For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

John Lone

An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.

Jimmy Doolittle

Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

Kenneth Branagh

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

Lewis Carroll

I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more